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‘Statistics’ on shootings were flat wrong

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Wednesday June 18, 2014 6:16 AM

The glaring headline and accompanying graphic could not have been more alarming or more
misleading (“Pace of shootings up since Newtown,”
Los Angeles Times article, Thursday
Dispatch). CNN, no protectors of the Second Amendment, quickly took the information that
Everytown.org is peddling to task, and discovered that only 15 of the alleged 74 incidents were “
situations similar to the violence in Oregon — a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a
school.” While I agree that even 15 is 15 too many, it should be pointed out that Everytown.org is
not focused on ending gun violence, for no one sees it rallying around gang-infested cities with
the most-stringent gun laws, such as Chicago, but rather it is trying to push an agenda of ending
the Second Amendment right of law-abiding citizens.

And when will someone in an elected office finally call for an investigation of why existing
laws aren't being properly enforced? Why aren't we looking at the possibility that the deluge of
violence that kids see every day in the media, entertainment and video-game form, along with the
effects of psychotropic drugs that some are feeding children at alarming rate, are having an effect
on our youth?